This is a beta release for 2.0.0.8172. The purpose of this release is to allow users to get early access to fixes and provide feedback as it would be impossible for our internal team to cover due to the huge amount of different possible PC environments out there. We do recommend you use a new database as a precaution.

Even though we rarely see anything that serious in these betas, and they have gone through some internal testing, they have not completed all our internal tests yet and the chances of a bug are higher than normal.

You can manually download the build here, if you have any issues you can rollback to the last stable version here.

Antivirus / Firewall warning:
If your getting this message that the blitz.dll or the StarsCommunicator.hm2 is a trojan/virus with the recent v8167 release that is a false positive, the reason is we updated the files recently for Pokerstars fast poker and this often causes firewalls and antiviruses to be suspicious which is a good thing.

As long as you downloaded HM2 through the auto update or from a genuine link from one of our staff there is nothing to worry about, add C:\Program Files (x86)\Holdem Manager 2\holdemamanager.exe to your exceptions and also C:\Program Files (x86)\Holdem Manager 2\Blitz.dll and C:\Program Files (x86)\Holdem Manager 2\StarsCommunicator.hm2 and tell it to ignore it if you get a warning, normally within a day or two security software companies will approve it and the issue will go away.
Release Notes:

Featured Updates
HM-8448 PokerStars Zoom - Resolved issue with HUD not working after PokerStars update
HM-8448 PokerStars Zoom - Resolved issue with HUD on Windows XP operating system
HM-8448 PokerStars Zoom - Improved compatibility with firewalls by disabling copying of dll files. Adding exceptions for blitz.dll and StarsCommunicator.hm2 in Program Files\HoldemManager2 folder should resolve the issue with most firewalls
HM-8448 PokerStars Zoom - Resolved HUD issue with player name detection for players with non-English characters
HM-8450 PKR - Resolved hand importing issue after PKR client update
HM-8446 Merge - HUD not working in tournaments after Merge client update
HM-7900 IPoker - Initial support for Speed tournaments
Notecaddy - Updated to v2.5.0.21

Import
HM-7610 Full Tilt - Upgraded parser to improve recognition of tournaments and cash game hand histories
HM-8444 Party Poker - Removed sitting out players from appearing in HUD and affecting filters

Tournaments
HM-8456 Poker Stars - Resolved issue with importing tournament summaries
HM-8396 Poker Stars - Corrected winnings for satellite tournaments after change in summary files
HM-7818 Party Poker - Updated buy-in and rake structure for SNGs

HUD
HM-7863 HUD stats - Updated vs Continuation bet stats in 3bet and Single Raised pots categories (expected % difference in value over big sample is under 1%)

Hand viewer
HM-7884 Hand viewer - Pacific - Added detection for posted dead blinds to cover due to the huge amount of different possible PC environments out there. We do recommend you use a new database as a precaution.